INTERNATIONAL: CHINA PILGRIMAGE - Dogen and Hanshan Sites

Travel to China with Sensei Kaz Tanahashi and Sensei Peter Levitt April 18 - May 3, 2017. Visit Tiantong Monastery where the great thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Dogen was trained by his teacher Rujing. We also visit the nearby cave where the legendary hermit-poet Hanshan lived and used the cave walls to write his poems.

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Irene Kyojo Bakker & Kaz Tanahashi: Dogen’s Circle of the Way part 3 of 4

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Speakers: Sensei Kaz Tanahashi & Irene Kyojo Bakker

Language is like the finger pointing to the moon, begins Kaz Sensei. The Dharma goes beyond the sutras, yet they remain important to the path. Buddhism is not outside or inside the scriptures; the experience of full enlightenment is to swallow and spit out the moon. Irene Kyojo reminds us that the Circle of the Way is literally beneath our feet in Dokanji, Upaya’s zendo. Our practice is something we do by learning, and we learn by doing. She offers us ways to look at the practice wholeheartedly through Dogen Zenji’s teachings.

Kazuaki Tanahashi, born and trained in Japan and active in the United States since 1977, has had solo exhibitions of his calligraphic paintings internationally. He has taught East Asian calligraphy at eight international conferences of calligraphy and lettering arts. Also a peace and environmental worker for decades, he is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.